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I have been artistic all of my life and love experimenting with different mediums and techniques. This blog is my creative outlet to share my passion for cardmaking and papercrafting!

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Thursday, May 25, 2017

Memorial Day Hero

Hi Friends!

As we approach the Memorial Day
weekend, I wanted to create a card using the Artistic OutpostHero and Grunge Elements stamp sets along with Our Daily Bread Designs Custom Dies and Paper in
honor of those “Heroes” who have lost their lives in service to our
country. May we always remember their
sacrifice for your freedom and mine!

If you have not had a chance to check
out the Artistic Outpost blog or the other challenge sites yet, I encourage you
to do so! Inspiration is posted throughout
the week on the AO Blog/ AO Facebook Page and the challenge galleries have fabulous
samples as well!

To create this card:

1). Ink
the military man image from Hero with hickory smoke distress ink and stamp onto
a piece of white cardstock. Color the
image with navy and cherry water-based markers along with vintage photo and tea
dye distress inks. Add a bit of texture
with the large splatter stamp as well as the smaller corner texture stamp from
Grunge Elements using vintage photo distress ink. Die cut and emboss the image using the Double Stitched Circles Dies and mount onto a circle of navy cardstock (die cut and
embossed with the Circles Dies).

2). Ink
the Hero sentiment with navy ink and stamp onto white cardstock. Add a bit of splatter with the large splatter
stamp from Grunge Elements and distress the paper with tea dye and vintage
photo distress ink. Trim around the sentiment and mount onto navy cardstock.

4). Trim
a piece of the Patriotic Collection 6x6 Paper for the background to 4” x 5 ¼”. Distress the edges with a distressing tool
and apply vintage photo and tea dye distress ink over the entire panel to “antique”
the paper. Once dry, apply a thin layer
of picket fence distress stain to tone down the images a bit and once that
layer has dried, use a star stencil with crackled texture paste to add
additional dimension.

5). Once
the crackled texture paste has dried, apply a thin layer of mod podge over the
entire background as well as the sentiment layer and the die cut focal image
circle layer- allow all to air dry.

6). Mount
a piece of navy cardstock onto the cherry card front, adhere the card front to
the white card base. Add the background
panel and mount the focal image along with the stars and sentiment using
dimensional foam.

Thanks again for taking the time to visit- hugs! I hope you have a blessed Memorial Day week/weekend and never forget the real reason for Memorial Day...

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